Respond+critically+to+specified+aspect(s)+of+studied+written+text(s),+supported+by+evidence

The texts listed below are considered to be of literary merit and suitable for study at NCEA Level 3 and level 8 of the curriculum because they allow the students to respond critically:


 * 3.1 Extended Texts**
 * ~ Text Title ||~ Text Author ||~ Comment ||
 * **Non-Fiction** ||  ||   ||
 * A Child Called It || Dave Pelzer ||  ||
 * Angela’s Ashes || Frank McCourt ||  ||
 * Desert Flower || Waris Dirie ||  ||
 * Dibs in Search of Self || Virginia Axline ||  ||
 * Girl Interrupted || Susanna Kaysen ||  ||
 * If This is a Man || Primo Levi ||  ||
 * In Cold Blood || Truman Capote ||  ||
 * Rachel’s Tears || Mark Scotts ||  ||
 * The Chosen || Chaim Potok ||  ||
 * The Color of Water || James McBride ||  ||
 * To The Is-Land || Janet Frame ||  ||
 * Tuesdays With Morrie || Mitch Albom ||  ||
 * **Novels** ||  ||   ||
 * A Clockwork Orange || Antony Burgess ||  ||
 * A Dangerous Vine || Barbara Ewing ||  ||
 * A Farewell to Arms || Ernest Hemingway ||  ||
 * A Gathering of Old Men || Ernest Gaines ||  ||
 * A Handmaid’s Tale || Margaret Atwood ||  ||
 * A Map of the World || Jane Hamilton ||  ||
 * A Room With A View || E M Forster ||  ||
 * A Thousand Splendid Suns || Khaled Hosseini ||  ||
 * As I Lay Dying || William Faulkner ||  ||
 * Atonement || Ian McEwan ||  ||
 * Beatrice and Virgil || Yann Martel ||  ||
 * Birdsong || Sebastian Faulks ||  ||
 * Black Swan Green || David Mitchell ||  ||
 * Blindsight || Maurice Gee ||  ||
 * Brave New World || Aldous Huxley ||  ||
 * Briar Rose || Jane Yolen ||  ||
 * Cat’s Eye || Margaret Atwood ||  ||
 * Cloudstreet || Tim Winton ||  ||
 * Cold Mountain || Charles Frazier ||  ||
 * Cry The Beloved Country || Alan Paton ||  ||
 * Emma || Jane Austen ||  ||
 * Enduring Love || Ian McEwan ||  ||
 * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close || Jonathan Sarfan Foer ||  ||
 * Fight Club || Chuck Palahniuk ||  ||
 * Fugitive Pieces || Annie Michaels ||  ||
 * Gallagher Girls || Ally Carter ||  ||
 * Genesis || Bernard Beckett ||  ||
 * How To Stop a Heart From Beating || Danielle Ballantyne ||  ||
 * In My Father’s Den || Maurice Gee ||  ||
 * Islands of Silence || Martin Booth ||  ||
 * Jane Eyre || Charlotte Bronte ||  ||
 * Maestro || Peter Goldsworthy ||  ||
 * Mr Pip || Lloyd Jones ||  ||
 * Mrs Dalloway || Virginia Woolfe ||  ||
 * No Country For Old Men || Cormac McCarthy ||  ||
 * Once Were Warriors || Alan Duff ||  ||
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest || Ken Kesey ||  ||
 * Owls Do Cry || Janet Frame ||  ||
 * Perfume || Patrick Suskind ||  ||
 * Persuasion || Jane Austen ||  ||
 * Potiki || Patricia Grace ||  ||
 * Pride and Prejudice || Jane Austen ||  ||
 * Room || Emma Donoghue ||  ||
 * Satisfied With Nothing || Ernest Hill ||  ||
 * Sense and Sensibility || Jane Austen ||  ||
 * Shades of Grey || Jasper Fforde ||  ||
 * Slaughterhouse 5 || Kurt Vonnegut ||  ||
 * Small Island || Andrea Levy ||  ||
 * Snow Falling on Cedars || David Gutterson ||  ||
 * Sula || Toni Morrison ||  ||
 * Surrender || Sonya Hartnett ||  ||
 * Talking About O’Dwyer || C K Stead ||  ||
 * Tess of the D’Urbervilles || Thomas Hardy ||  ||
 * The Bell Jar || Sylvia Plath ||  ||
 * The Book Thief || Markus Zusak ||  ||
 * The Color Purple || Alice Walker ||  ||
 * The Comfort of Strangers || Ian McEwan ||  ||
 * The Five People You Meet in Heaven || Mitch Albom ||  ||
 * The God of Small Things || Arundhati Roy ||  ||
 * The Grass is Singing || Doris Lessing ||  ||
 * The Great Gatsby || F Scott Fitzgerald ||  ||
 * The Kite Runner || Khaled Hosseini ||  ||
 * The Last Ride || Thomas Eidson ||  ||
 * The Lovely Bones || Alice Sebold ||  ||
 * The Messengers || Marcus Zusak ||  ||
 * The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint || Brady Udall ||  ||
 * The New Girl || Emily Perkins ||  ||
 * The Poisonwood Bible || Barbara Kingsolver ||  ||
 * The Power and the Glory || Graham Greene ||  ||
 * The Outsider || Albert Camus ||  ||
 * The Reader || Bernhard Schlink ||  ||
 * The Road || Cormac McCarthy ||  ||
 * The Shipping News || Annie Proulx ||  ||
 * The Things They Carried || Tim O’Brien ||  ||
 * The Wall || Jean Paul Satre ||  ||
 * Things Fall Apart || Chinua Achebe ||  ||
 * Triage || Scott Anderson ||  ||
 * Whanau II || Witi Ihimaera ||  ||
 * What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? || Alan Duff ||  ||
 * Wide Sargasso Sea || Jean Rhys ||  ||
 * Wintergirls || Laurie Lalse Anderson ||  ||
 * Wuthering Heights || Emily Bronte ||  ||
 * **Plays** ||  ||   ||
 * A Doll’s House || Henrik Ibsen ||  ||
 * Death and the Maiden || Ariel Dorfman ||  ||
 * Death of a Salesman || Arthur Miller ||  ||
 * Dr Faustus || Christopher Marlowe ||  ||
 * Foreskin’s Lament || Greg McGee ||  ||
 * King Lear || Shakespeare ||  ||
 * Lady Windermere’s Fan || Oscar Wilde ||  ||
 * Master Harold and the Boys || Athol Fugard ||  ||
 * Much Ado About Nothing || Shakespeare ||  ||
 * Ophelia Thinks Harder || Jean Betts ||  ||
 * Othello || Shakespeare ||  ||
 * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead || Tom Stoppard ||  ||
 * The Crucible || Arthur Miller ||  ||
 * The Glass Menagerie || Tennessee Williams ||  ||
 * The History Boys || Alan Bennett ||  ||
 * The Kid || Michael Gow ||  ||
 * The Laraime Project || Moises Kaufman ||  ||
 * Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? || Edward Albee ||  ||
 * **3.1 Short Texts** ||  ||   ||
 * **Poetry** ||  ||   ||
 * Tusiata Avia ||  ||   ||
 * James K Baxter ||  ||   ||
 * William Blake ||  ||   ||
 * Emily Dickenson ||  ||   ||
 * Gerald Manly Hopkins ||  ||   ||
 * Kapka Kassoabova ||  ||   ||
 * John Keats ||  ||   ||
 * Sylvia Plath ||  ||   ||
 * Edgar Allan Poe ||  ||   ||
 * Shakespearean sonnets ||  ||   ||
 * Hone Tuwhare ||  ||   ||
 * **Short Stories** ||  ||   ||
 * Ray Bradbury ||  ||   ||
 * Raymond Carver ||  ||   ||
 * Janet Frame ||  ||   ||
 * Yellow Wallpaper || Charlotte Perkins Gilman ||  ||
 * The Cold Equations || Tom Godwin ||  ||
 * Ernest Hemingway ||  ||   ||
 * Alex La Guma ||  ||   ||
 * Katherine Mansfield ||  ||   ||
 * Owen Marshall ||  ||   ||
 * The Wall || Jean Paul Satre ||  ||
 * The Dark Room || Rachel Sieffert ||  ||
 * Hone Tuwhare ||  ||   ||

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